It’s tough out there. Difficult to make a living and pay for basic expenses let alone even think of spending money on travel. Travel has always been one of my “basic necessities” and the current climate means I have to dig even deeper and cut more corners to afford this important part of my life. [...]
“Travel Tips & Advice on Travel for Less”
How to Make Your Travel Dreams and Travel Reality Come True
February 13th, 2009 
Sheila Simkin 
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Cut Down Your Costs and Keep Traveling
November 26th, 2008 Sheila Simkin Things are really tough financially around the world right now and everyone is hurting. This presents a major problem if you still want to continue traveling. It’s difficult to justify an expenditure on what is perceived as a “luxury” rather than a “necessity” but travel has always been a necessity for me. You just have [...]
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Should You Use Hotel Websites, or Book Direct?
October 26th, 2008 Sheila Simkin I am completely addictive (or anal…take your pick) when it comes to finding and booking a hotel at the best possible price or deal. Is one of the big hotel websites the way to go or should I navigate directly to the different hotels? …’tis a puzzlement… After trying both ways for years, still no [...]
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Asia Can Be Affordable
June 8th, 2008 Sheila Simkin Do you want to visit Thailand? Laos? Cambodia? Do you think that a tour to any or all of these places is beyond your means? Think again. Today’s Chicago Tribune detailed a deluxe tour offered by the Art Institute of Chicago with accommodations at five-star hotels, internal flights, many meals, entrance fees, etc. at the [...]
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Ladakh, India Money Saver
May 13th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Today’s Sunday newspaper Travel section had an article detailing a expedition to a remote area of Ladakh, priced at $4,195 a person. I’d like someone to please explain why anyone would want to spend $4,195 a person to travel through Ladakh when you can easily see the same sights and book a group trip through [...]
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How to save money while traveling… You can do it!
May 1st, 2007 Sheila Simkin I just came back from the Big Seminar in Atlanta that basically teaches people how to make money on the Internet. Joel Comm, of NY Times best-selling “AdSense Code” and a Google AdSense guru was one of the speakers and pulled up Travels With Sheila during his presentation to illustrate ad placements, and emphasize content [...]
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Cheap Tours to China
January 17th, 2007 Sheila Simkin I just received a flyer from smarTours, www.smarTours.com with a 10-day tour of Beijing and Shanghai for $699, including air from Los Angeles – for a New York departure, add $100. People think that Asian travel is prohibitively expensive for an ordinary person. I beg to disagree! An average airplane ticket to Oklahoma City from [...]
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Inexpensive Worldwide Vacations with Explore
December 12th, 2006 Sheila Simkin I never recommend any tour operator that we haven’t used and been satisfied with. Explore U.K. is one of my best finds for relatively inexpensive vacations (in comparison to American tour operators) around the world. This is what the word, “inexpensive” means to me… A trip that includes: hotels and/or small pensions; air within countries [...]
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Europe – Maximizing Your Budget
April 28th, 2006 Sheila Simkin Susan Sullivan, in Texas, travels with some women-friends and asked if I had any tips to s..t..r..e.. t..c..h those Euros further. There are 1,000′s of articles and books on that subject, but this is what I do, have done, and suggest. If you’re talking about two weeks, limit yourself to one country, two at the [...]
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